{"id":5649,"date":"2022-02-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=5649"},"modified":"2025-02-19T10:51:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T10:51:53","slug":"morning-shows-on-boyneside-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/morning-shows-on-boyneside-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast series: Morning shows on Boyneside Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1012\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5649-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/8000AI-A-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/8000AI-A-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/8000AI-A-192.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/8000AI-A-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=5649-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/8000AI-A-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"8000AI-A-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"549\" height=\"389\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ireland_mullingar_west_daire_nelson2_0287.jpg\" alt=\"Northeast series: Morning shows on Boyneside Radio\" class=\"wp-image-5660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ireland_mullingar_west_daire_nelson2_0287.jpg 549w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ireland_mullingar_west_daire_nelson2_0287-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><figcaption>Daire Nelson during his Radio West days (courtesy DX Archive).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a recording of morning programmes on Boyneside Radio from early 1983. Following the merger with the breakaway Community Radio Drogheda, the station was making headway again and advertising from the town was plentiful. Part 1 of the recording above was made from 98.4 FM in mono and runs from 0906-0954 on Friday 21<sup>st<\/sup> January 1983. It features Daire Nelson on the breakfast show and includes a comedy slot involving a call to the Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda as well as a weekly sentence in Irish. There are requests from Drogheda, Dundalk, Duleek and Navan. Dara is followed by the late Dave C. at 0930. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"652\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/8000AI-1024x652.jpg\" alt=\"Northeast series: Morning shows on Boyneside Radio\" class=\"wp-image-5651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/8000AI-1024x652.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/8000AI-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/8000AI-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/8000AI-1536x979.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/8000AI-rotated.jpg 1557w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Cassette label from the Anoraks Ireland Collection. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Part 2 below is from 0957-1045 and includes the One Minute of Pop quiz and news with Shane Harrison, who now works as BBC Northern Ireland&#8217;s Dublin correspondent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/8000AI-B-192.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Part 2 of the recording. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording is from the Anoraks Ireland Tapes Collection, donated to us by Paul Davidson.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a recording of morning programmes on Boyneside Radio from early 1983. Following the merger with the breakaway Community Radio Drogheda, the station was making headway again and advertising from the town was plentiful. Part 1 of the recording above was made from 98.4 FM in mono and runs from 0906-0954 on Friday 21st &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/morning-shows-on-boyneside-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Northeast series: Morning shows on Boyneside Radio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[501,564,18,399,409,154,544,692],"class_list":["post-5649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-501","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-boyneside-radio","tag-daire-nelson","tag-dave-cunningham","tag-louth","tag-northeast-series","tag-shane-harrison"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Northeast series: Morning shows on Boyneside Radio - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/morning-shows-on-boyneside-radio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Northeast series: Morning shows on Boyneside Radio - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is a recording of morning programmes on Boyneside Radio from early 1983. 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